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Hungary passes constitutional amendment banning LGBTQ events

Hungary passes constitutional amendment banning LGBTQ events

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Hungarian lawmakers have passed a constitutional amendment that codifies a ban on Pride events and allows authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees. The amendment, backed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party, declares that children's rights take precedence over all other fundamental rights, except the right to life.

Hadja Lahbib
European Commission
1. Everyone should be able to be who they are, live & love freely. The right to gather peacefully is a fundamental right to be championed across the European Union. We stand with the LGBTQI community – in Hungary & in all member states.
Timea Szabo
1. When we chained ourselves up during the constitution's first overhaul in 2011, we never thought that 14 years later, we would have to do the same thing.
Viktor Orban
Fidesz
1. We are here because we need to act fast to get ahead and stop it.
Hungarian Helsinki Committee
1. These laws represent a significant escalation in the government's efforts to suppress dissent, weaken human rights protection and consolidate its grip on power.
Momentum
1. Let's collectively prevent them from leading us down the Putin road and depriving us of our freedom.
Dánel Döbrentey
Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
1. It is definitely and purely and strictly about humiliating people and excluding them, not just from the national community, but even from the community of human beings.
2. This whole endeavor which we see launched by the government, it has nothing to do with children's rights.
Szabolcs Pek
Iranytu Intezet
1. People are not falling out of the window, but the government is increasingly limiting the space for opposition politicians, journalists and civil society.
Ákos Hadházy
Momentum
1. This government isn't just dismantling democracy brick by brick, it's now going at it with a bulldozer.

Hungary passes constitutional amendment banning LGBTQ events

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